Claude Bernard / by M. Foster.

  • Foster, M. (Michael), Sir, 1836-1907.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Claude Bernard / by M. Foster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    though it was that of a man who had long passed away, was exceedingly powerful. Bichat had laid hold of a great idea, one which rapidly spread from the land in which it was first expounded to other lands, and has in a most marked way helped to make physiology an exact science, the idea that the life of the body is the outcome of the combined and adjusted lives of the constituent tissues. By his brilliant exposition of this fruitful idea, he had opened up new ways for an exact experimental analysis of physiological phenomena. But in the detailed applica- tion of this idea, which in the flush of his youthful enthusiasm he strove to make complete and symmetric, undertaking a task the doing of which has needed, and still needs, the continued successive labours of many inquirers, he often went astray. Moreover, he so far remained under the